video footage of the new apartment has been relocated to a new page. http://members.nbci.com/Smalrus/apartment.html. if you dont have highspeed internet, then watching this video will be a bitch because its 8.5 megs. at the first frame of the video, my window is the upper left corner.

24/5/01-(my damn stats counter site is going bogus on me now, had to start a new one :þ) im starting to get into true summer mode of weeklyish updates.  why?  because during the days, i dont to anything other than go to work, so if i have something interesting at night, might as well update after ive got atleast something to say.  ok, so i sacrifice some memory of whats been done but its all good.  the counter to montreal jumped up a few days cause it turns out im going up the 18th of august insead of the 23rd.  cant say in the least that im not excited.  

thursday was my last day of training back at the main offices, where we went over some compliance stuff, really boring, but the bank treated us to lunch at the triple a diner, so we had a good time and i actually had some poutine surprisingly, even though it was rather americanized.  dont think i did anything thursday afternoon.  friday was my test at the main office and i got a 98 (cause i mixed two numbers for what the minimum balance is to not incur a montly penalty on your passbook or checking account).  from there i headed over to my branch on buckland st. in south windsor where i'll be working all summer.  im convinced the phrase "certified teller" means certified to be atleast 7-12 years older than spencers age range.  why?  because all the hot certified tellers are about that much older than me.  so i got stuck with jessica's desk and she helped me and was harassing me the whole time and i was harassing her the whole time.  lets just say it'll be a fun summer ;)  i saw ryan bowman and i have a feeling i'll be seeing a lot of people i know coming in to do their banking.  anywho.  so then jon came by,  and he and scott met me there after work and we dropped the car off at my dads to head camping.  it was supposed to rain, but luckily it didnt.

this was my first time camping, and the three of us went to moose meadows in ashford.  had a snafu with staying as an extra person, but straightened it out and then got firewood and had an 18 hr fire.  camping was awesome, i didnt know how you could do without any form of entertainment other than talking, but we managed to keep the fire going by throwing any and everything we could find into the fire, including making the pennies ping, and ended up talking about everything and everybody til 3am.  woke up at 10 the next morning and the fire was still smoldering.  still, we cooked a kielbasa, and some other stuff and had to leave cause of glens graduation.  i think we washed up and whatnot, then jon came over to watch the voyager from last week, we left to get nicole birthday cards at cvs and then ended up driving to the footbridge over the ct river and walked to the civic center, had some mckyd's and then came back.  chilled a bit, i got to watch britcom on pbs, and then i picked jon  up and we went to nicoles party.

nicoles party was rather boring, i dont feel as close with many of the sw people and we didnt talk much, but i got to see sarah d and melissa, so it was still good.  i still like melissa, but thats something completely never happening as far as i can ever tell.  so we chilled a while, then scott, sarah, jon and i went for a drive.  made it to some pool hall where you had to rent your own sticks. so we jammed.  went over to bumpers and ashley dzeb was working there, so we talked to her, shot a few games and then went to dennys.  saturday was rockville prom night so all the prom people were coming to dennys and lincoln parker was our server, so we talked to him a while and that was basically it, took them all home around 1am.  sunday was a do nothing day except i went over to the c's for a couple hours.  monday again was a do nothing day although i fucked up a transaction that was error corrected by my supervisor weirdly at the end of the day and messed up the balancing, but it wasnt a big deal i guess. and i dont think i did anything after work.  watched the blues-avs game.  great series, really tight, and the avs won it, they'll be playing the devils in the stanley cup finals.  tuesday was another work day, probably screwed up again and got it fixed.  so during lunch, i went to the store and bought the requiem for a dream dvd.  so andrew came over in the evening and we watched it.  still probably the most disturbing movie ive ever seen (my review is still on the reviews section.)  i dunno, i just have a thing for nihilistic-based movies that speak to the human condition.  requiem is still one of those good all around movies, editing, sound, scoring, etc...i liked it a lot.

yesterday was basically a perfect day at work, although we had the server go down for 10 min and couldnt do transactions. other than that i did well.  then after work was going over to jons to watch the series finale of voyager.  since many people had trouble understanding the space-time continuum, i made here a diagram for people to show it. 

i thought it was a really good episode and not like most of the episodes.  action was plentiful, character arcs were pretty much tied up (even if i disapproved of the chakotay/7 of 9 relationship.  she'll be on boston public next season anyway).  although, i figured out what the last half hour was gonna be based on piecing things together.  i was really impressed though.  after voyager, i showed jon the requiem dvd and i think he was a little bugged.  guarantee you wont be able to say anything after you see it.  anywho.

today was yet another boring day.  work was busy and i came up 100$ short at cashing out, and we almost had to do a full audit.  then when i got home, they found a 100$ bill stuck under my cash box.  i dont know how they found it since my cash box was locked in the vault already and i have my vault keys.  good thing i found it though, it would have been a mess if we didnt.  

the big news for the democrats today is sen. james jeffords of vt dropping from the republican party and becoming an independent.  now this is big for several reasons.  people are suggesting gridlock on the senate floor.  i dont think so.  first of all, this puts the balance of power in the senate to the democrats, 50-49.  and tom daschle is gonna be the senate majority leader instead of co sharing it with trent lott.  good news because lott was more ranking than daschle because we have a republican president.  the new shift in power means realignment of the senate subcommittes, meaning many democratic chairmen who will be able to block issues from the bush agenda from entering the senate floor.  this means more moderate supreme court justices, more moderate issues, patients bill of rights, more on education, moderation on oil drilling, etc.  big plus.  this doesnt mean guaranteed democrat victory and compromise and partisanship will definitely have to play a role in the realigned senate.  what this shows is how far right the gop is heading and how moderate americans want their representatives.  bill clinton helped spawn a new, functional government with the third way and our socio-economic growths are proof.  far-right and far-left arent cutting it, and if the new structure of the senate is any indication, people like jeffords will leave the republican party for becoming too strongly conservative.  as a democrat myself, i think this is a big help to shake up the bush administration and all of a sudden, im not as concerned about the reach of the far-right in this country as i was before.  many republicans have always been at ideological odds with jeffords and jeffords often votes along democratic lines, but if the republicans can't take a tip from jeffords that there needs to be moderation, then they will never survive.  from a political science standpoint, we've learned that conservatism is often drawn upon what is bad with liberalism, and as liberal ideas gets old, they tend to be reflected as conservative.  however, in this case, people like george w bush have taken conservatism to mean biblical spewing of values in politics.  as america is increasingly secular, that cant be the case.  and if people like george w bush cant realize that they need to adapt to moderates, then john mccain is right in saying that its time for the gop to get their heads out their asses, stop bitchin, and actually get into the game.  kudos to jeffords for doing what he thought best.  raspberries to the republicans for trying to get even by trying to convince georgia sen. zell miller to convert to the gop.  now until strom thurmond retires or croaks...how do they keep electing him? is it some sort of novelty or something?

OoGuay: why's there gotta be a big hubalub about it?
Smalrus: cause it completely shifts balance of power in the senate from a 50-50 tie in favour of the republicans (because dick cheney, as the vice president, becomes the tie breaker), to a 50-49 in favour of the democrats
OoGuay: right, i understand that much. but what the hell;s the point of so many people in congress, particularly the senate, if when it's evenly split 50-50 they all vote in factions as if there were only two people?
Smalrus: what do you mean so many people in congress?
OoGuay: the point of more people is more perspectives, more people represented
Smalrus: they are
Smalrus: people directly elect who they want to represent them
OoGuay: but if you vote one way just because of your political affiliation, then there isnt' really that representation
OoGuay: i don't think politicians really remember who they're representing and get caught up in the political divide
Smalrus: well no, thats not the case. there was a 61-37 vote today to confirm the guy for solicitor general. thats not a half and half divide
OoGuay: yeah
Smalrus: its not just about who politicians are representing. i learned about this in political theort
Smalrus: theory
OoGuay: so then why really make a big deal of this guy switching if what you're saying is that people, senators and representatives, are voting to represent and not from party?
OoGuay: sorry, just trying to make sense of this
Smalrus: this is direct representation. senator lieberman says in his campaign "im gonna do this and this and this and this." i think it sounds good. i vote for him. i dont have to vote for him because hes a democrat or because i agree with this but not that. i vote for him because i think the political decisions he makes and the political voting in the senate that he does will best represent me and to some respect, i put that implicit trust in him by electing him
OoGuay: right.
OoGuay: some people vote for their representatives based on their political affiliation. 
Smalrus: why make a big deal? because this still changes the balance of political power in the senate. regardless of representation, there is still somewhat of a partisan divide. but not just that. the majority party gets to chair the senate subcommittees which decide what issues may be brought to the senate floor, they help pass supreme court judge nominations, etc...its not just the 50-50 vote on the senate floor, but the various other political structures as well
OoGuay: believing that what you said proves more true than what i said, then the people in congress should be there on the basis of their principles, right? so then just because it happens to be a nice 50-50 in the senate is no biggie, right? because everyone's there for their beliefs. so then why hugely care if one guy switches parties if it's all on the person's beliefs?
OoGuay: oh
OoGuay: okay then. 
OoGuay: it does rock the boat.
Smalrus: because in order for legislation to pass, there has to be a majority. in a 50-50 scenario, the tie breaking vote goes to the vice president, who usually votes his party. in this case it would be dick cheney providing the 51st vote.  assuming jeffords votes democratic, and more or less than one democrat votes republican, then cheney's vote is unnecessary

16/5/01-as staind says, "its been a while." no ones been giving me anything for the molson page, so that sucks, but i cant help it, i need content.  actually, im lacking content for this page, let alone the other.  just send me back to montreal already.

this week has been a boring week for the most part and i can sorta see how the rest of the summer is gonna play out.  since the last time, ive been working at first federal doing training during the days.  the first 3 days were at the corporate offices watching videos and listening to my trainer speak.  shes quite hot, if she was about 11 years younger and 10 pounds lighter, and then theres kerri, who goes to ucf and chantal and crystal, the mormon twins, who go to byu-hawaii.  then last thursday until today, we were at the silver lane branch, working on the teller line to get some practice on the computers.  i still dont think ive gotten them 100%, since there was 4 of us cycling through the computers.  which meant a lot of standing around time and a lot of boredom.  so work itself has been quite uneventful and i havent seen anyone i knew other than some guy whose son i played baseball with in 6th and 7th grades.

outside of work, not much has been going on.  people have slowly been getting back from schools, although i havent seen most anyone.  tuesday, chris was in town and jules got home, so he and jules and i went to the movies to see driven, although since ive been so lazy for updating this site, i dont think a review is gonna get posted so quickly.  suffice to say, montreal was in the movie, as was toronto, and the movie was good entertainment, but hardly the best movie, id give it 2 1/2 stars out of five and thats my short review. 

i dont remember what i did on monday but i dont think it was anything, same with thursday.  wed, i had jules over here for the afternoon and then i went with jon and scott and jules to bumpers to shoot some pool.  wooooo.  fun south windsor :).  friday i went up to uconn to visit scott with jon and jules and have a farleyfest.  so i got out of work, we went to hooters for dinner (good restaurant, and the foods pretty good also).  then we went back to uconn, put on the flicks on scotts dvd, and we were gonna go to some party, but there wasnt any party. so we came back, more tv, wings over storrs, and then sleep.  we tried visiting andrew, but he kept not being there all weekend and we just kept seeing patrick, so that visit didnt happen.  oh well.  so sunday we walked around campus and looked for women, but there was a shortage.  i got to eat at northwest's dining hall, which was a trip cause im not used to an all you can eat buffet meal plan.  then we went to visit sarah and lisa, and it was a million degrees in their dorm room (as well as scotts), which was plain annoying.  so we were there a few minutes and then i had to go back home.  go figure, traffic is backed up forever cause some car exploded before our exit and then people were using back roads, plus there was an influx of college cars moving home, so it was ridiculous. finally got home in 65 min instead of 20, showered, changed, and then we went to hamden to visit my great uncle jack and great aunt fran and then onto new haven for my cousin fran's 50th birthday party (even though her real birthday is next week.  so she makes it a point that she and my mom are the same age for a week).  so it was an okay party, but i knew no one and they were all older except for jeffery, whos a senior, going to emory next year. and his sister dana, who is a junior, looking at wash u.  that was it for that.

sunday was mothers day and i didnt do anything all day really.  monday was a do nothing day and yesterday was a do nothing day, other than it was my moms 49th, so i went and got her a card, got her a present and that was all that happened.  what can i say, i lead a rather boring life right now.  tomorrow i'm back at the corporate offices for some final training and lunch on the bank, then friday am is a "test" and friday afternoon, i start at the south windsor branch.  then friday night i get out at 6 and jon, scott, and i are going camping at moose meadows in ashford.  and according to seth, the second or third coat of varnish on the apartment floors so that'll be cool (bout damn time).

3/5/01-well, a shout out to molson five, who, i found out when i got back to montreal, is anxiously awaiting my comments on the east side of molson five.  looking at my stats counter, i found multiple hits from molson on two nights and it was kinda fishy, so they were all asking me when eastside is gonna be done.  matter of fact, i think marcia hit my site twice this morning and twice yesterday morning.  or maybe it was sarah.  someone from london did.  anywho.  i was gonna be lazy and not do it, but it looks like its in demand.  so seeing as to how i'm not doing a damn thing til monday, i might as well do it now.  er later in the reflection.  in the meantime, im setting up a MOLSON FIVE Home Page at http://members.nbci.com/molsonfive any pictures, stories, memories, email directory, any anything that the molson fivers want up there, i'll put.  theres a temp site up now, but with the amount of lazy free time ive got, i'm sure i'll be workin hard on getting a little something better up there, maybe a little more this weekend.  in the meantime feel free to drop in on my site, check out whats going on down here and welcome to my mind...

*news flash* tina outwits everyone and wins the million dollars, beating vegas odds.  i said time and time again, keep jerri on, get rid of tina, shes the bigger threat.  no one did that.  stupid americans.  debb shoulda won :P

this weekend until today was a mess.  true mess.  first off, montreal with my mom was not the trip i wanted it to be.  we left south windsor around noon.  i drove from south windsor to albany, where we had a directions snafu, and then up to a little past grand falls.  we got out to wipe the bugs splattered on the windshield and go to the bathroom and then mom drove from there to plattsburgh while i slept the first 1/2 hr of her 2 hrs of driving.  from plattsburgh it was straight to montreal, although i wasnt sure which bridge brought us to university street, ended up missing it, and rode sherbrooke all the way back to university.  no biggie.  got to my room and about 5 min in, jon and nicole stopped in and invited me to tamtams.  of course mom was there cause she was staying in my room instead of a hotel.  so i invited her to come with us, but she declined (she went with this, "i'm the mother, they dont want me" attitude all weekend).  so i had left with my guitar and said id be back in about an hour.  she said she had some calls to make but it was to home and i forgot she didnt know how to dial out.  plus, she couldnt get a dial tone cause the phone was messed up from me unplugging the fax.  suffice to say she ended up having to use the car phone.  so i went to tamtams and when i came back, i was locked out of my room.  i was gonna eat supper with her (this was at 730), but she didnt think i gave a time so she left for dinner without me, only she didnt take the car either.  but i didnt know she left for dinenr.  so after wandering around the hall til she came back, i found out she was pissed at me for ditching her, etc...so things were already off on a bad foot.  so i ordered in mammas for the last time and my mom went to sleep.  i ended up going out with the remainder of the floor to vol de nuit for the last time and having not been drunk in 4 weeks, it took little to get me drunk, but we all had a good last time together.  coming back drunk to my room at 230am with my mom in my bed (i slept in a sleeping bag on the floor) was something i didnt think id end up getting away with, kinda weird.

got up early monday, and too my mom to place milton for brunch.  mainly we did the brunt of the packing, but we went by the apartment and i showed my mom it.  the workers were still there and the place was nowhere near being ready.  so my mom and i are freakin out.  dude, my room is 13 1/2' x 17', bigger than my room here in south windsor.  anywho, so where the hell was my stuff gonna go if i couldnt move it in the room as scheduled.  so we got back, i put some stuff into the washer for the summer and we tried to figure out what we were gonna do with all our stuff if it couldnt be put in the apartment. apparently seth and nick got space in the mcconnell beer room (exec privelage) so they were storing stuff there and while i went for an interview for arts frosh, my mom got a hold of charlie and turned out there was more room in molson storage, so charlie saved us 6 bins. so after packing for a while and getting a parking "ticket" from the mcgill parking attendents, we finally went out to dinner around 8ish.  basically we walked around the plateau for a while and finally settled on la caverne greque.  good food.  saw megan walking down prince arthur with the girls from her place and then there was erica and natalie from sixth floor who were coming about 5 min before we left.  after that was some more packing, more walking around the floor and then bedtime while some peeps were at peel.

monday was the day my lease expired in molson and the lease for the apartment was supposed to start.  only the apartment still wasnt gonna be done for 2 weeks.  so we finished packing and got charlie to help us move the boxes into storage.  after that we loaded stuff into the car.  and of course, when i move the parking gate to back in, this guy comes up the hill and takes my space.  so i'm stuck parking next to him, and as i'm backing up, i cant see the railing and back right into it.  nice 250$ or more taillight cover to replace :P after we're done packing, it was final goodbyes to jon, nicole, tom, emma, and christine and my mom and i walked to second cup for some coffee before meeting the guys at the apartment at 1130.  the guys were late but their mothers were there also, so we moved the couch into some storage space we had in the place that wasnt being affected by the construction, met with our landlords and then took off.  the ice cream shop was already open and tables were set up.  one of nicole's friends is working there so thats cool.  after that was lunch at schwartzs and going back to the car to leave montreal for the summer.  i already miss it.  of course im driving down university to pins and i see what looks like adams auditorium on fire, black smoke all out the windows and fire trucks coming up university to it... hasnt montreal had enough fires?

i drove all the way home, 6 hrs straight through, stopping only to get gas in plattsburgh. got into south windsor around 8ish.  so after a miserable trip back and the long drive, i was physically and mentally exhausted, more than ive been in my life.  like, i was starting to cry for no reason, very irritated and cranky...  i wanted to go to bed yet somehow i ended up online til 3.  still not back on the regular schedule even after my body is tired.

yesterday, got up round noon and had a great day after that miserable weekend.  i didnt do much all day, didnt really go anywhere other than taking the car for a month overdue emissions testing and stopping by media play for a car adapter after my mom broke mine and then getting some blanks cds so i can burn off stuff from the computer and make lars and melissa copies of my rane vcd for tomorrows show at equator.  what was great about the day though was that first of all, i got a job offering at first federal savings.  only 8$ an hour, but its only banking hours so ive got nights and weekends, plus its airconditioned.  i start training on monday, i think its a 2 week session and then i'll probably be telling after that, mainly in the south windsor branch on buckland by four corners.  so that was great and i dont have to worry about looking for a job anymore, plus i can always go back and work breaks and summers...second, my last grades were posted and i ended up with a c+ in polisci (which i thought i was near failing), and a b+ in religions of east asia.  so after that whole "am i on probation or not" phase, i ended up with a gpa of 2.37 for the year, which is above a c+ but not a b- and atleast puts me way out of worrying about that for the summer. of course, had i not taken logic and failed it, i might have actually stood a chance at the b- or b, but vision is 2020 in hindsight (unless youre me, whos 2013, but takes a course in logic cause he has none).  so that was great news.  i got the router working for the computer network and i thought it was just broken since i couldnt get it to work for the past week, but magically it started ok so now both computers can share the cable modem at the same time and i'll bring it up to the apartment for the five of us. and lastly, lars sent me 2 3hour rane shows from penuche's ale house, so now ive got 6 more hours of live rane to dispense.  unfortunately about 90% of my cds are up in molson hall storage, so most of my live rane on cd isnt here, but i grabbed my favourite ones...so that was my good do-nothing day.

and now the moment molson five seems to be anxiously waiting for, presenting molson five eassside (wait til the stats counter goes up on this one)...

i dont think i visited across the east side of the hall for a good 2 weeks into school.  so even at the end of the year, most of east side is still kinda foreign territory and i didnt get to know most of those peoples.  but shootin down the sides of the hall, we'll start with the north.  first there's willy.  well, her real name is anna, but everyone calls her willy.  anywho. from what i'm told, shes the nicest person youve ever met.  unfortunately, i dont really know her well at all.  i do know that shes extremely fluent in french and that shes very involved in political activities, as she ran for the NDP party in our riding for the 2000 elections.  it was kinda cool seeing signs around the city for willy blomme for mp, and having her on our floor.  unfortunately she didnt win, but she was still celeb.

then is radu, who is from ste. foy, outside of quebec city, only he was originally from romania i think.  dont know too much about him and didnt see him much outside the occasional meal at bmh, where conversation was usually about classes and whatnot.  then comes mir, whom i dont know much about other than that she's jewish, she's short, she hangs out with jordan a lot (relationship maybe? i dunno), and shes got this hot friend on the fourth floor, alexis.  next to mir was rebecca, whom again, i dont know at all other than i think she's got something going on with charlie.  of course i'd be the last to know anything about anything so they probably did have something going on.  next to rebecca was jordan.  and next to jordan was kat.  kat played volleyball and id see her in the halls or more likely the elevator for some reason.  shes friendly and she's got two hot friends, one of whom i met at madhatters on my first night.

once we get to the end of five northeast, theres people i actually know better.  first was cole, our star football player.  cole was the man from squamish heights, bc and they just called him squamy. hehe, one of those potheads who wasnt a pothead.  i used to sit with him and two of his football friends, garrett and khan, at dinner and there was one point where he'd always come down to dinner stoned. and then when he got his blue bong, he found that he could economize the high he got out of the quantity of weed he bought.  floor progressions, cole was the spirit of the floor.  and the last floor progression, i tried unsuccessfully to negotiate 5 bong hits from the blue bong.  cole(drunk): "here's my alcohol level on last progression [points up]. here's my level on this progression [points down]. last progression [points up], this progression [points down]. we need to drink more.  drink, muthafuckers!"

with all that going on, he must have driven his neighbour devon crazy.  devon was in a class or two of mine this year but mainly we hung out watching britcom cause i only watched it once and she was watching it all the time.  while my pref was keeping up appearances, she liked are you being served better, but it still beat watching it by myself at 1230 in the morning.  no to mention she was a big fan of moist and she kinda had some part in turning me on to them.  plus shes another corner person, so alls good...

across from devon is sarah.  now, i believe i said this in september, but sarah is hot and whereas most hot girls wouldnt give me the time day, we actually got along rather well and she actually talked to me.  so of course, being the typical me, i let it get to my head and played out subtle moves like writing random quotes on her whiteboard, etc...so then someone else wrote a poem on her whiteboard and she thought it was me, so i asked her if she wanted to read one of mine. so i ripped one out of my poetry book and gave it to her.  later that night was the ripped poem fiasco which kinda ticked me off cause i didnt know what actually happened and i thought she ripped it so i backed off for a week or so.  during that time, i shot myself down cause i took note of what kind of person she was based off who she hung out with and i didnt think i was her type.  who knows now, since september, ive definitely changed in attitude on a lot of things.  i wouldnt say everything about me is "same ol spencer"... it took a while cause i kinda made it awkward but we're cool again.  like i say, the beginning of last year was a tough adjustment for me, and id probably approach things differently if i did it again...

on the southeast side...first room is nicole's room.  i didnt really know nicole well for like, the first half of the year or so, probably not til the second semester when i started going over to that hall more often and she was going out with jon, and since we were always playing ps2 in jon's room, i talked to her more.  she's really nice, i'm glad i got to know her better.  now if only she could set me up with her friend amber ;) ...

next is rob, who was in my political theory conference, but we never talked much.  i know he likes a lot of 60s rock and he plays the guitar pretty well (of course anything is better in comparison to me).  then was tum, whom i guess knows 3 languages rather fluently from what ive heard?  she was good friends with jordana and colleen from my side, but i never really talked to her much either.

ok, then was natty b, the exeter man...the lucky montréalais who put down his exeter address so he could get into rez...:)  i dont remember my early dealings with him other than that he was in my comp politics class.  he did play hockey so hed often be gone to play games with his team from montreal.  it took me til later in the semester when we decided to split up our book for comp politics that i actually started talking more cause i remember the first few times i brought my guitar over to the other side and he was playing dmb and so i was kinda playing, but i didnt know any of it.  i kinda got "lie in our graves" because of him.  anywho, atleast this semester i got to know him a little better through IPE and hanging out on the other side of the floor.

next to nat was dana, who, the first time i met her, she reminded me of someone id seen before.  dana was from michigan and somehow fit the model of hot michigan blonds (brandee, becky, melissa...).  i think theres something in the water out there.  she was good to talk to if you needed someone to listen to you, although i didnt see her much around the rez, probably because she was either trying to get some silence from tom, or with her boyfriend on the island.  i still say she reminds me of someone and i dont know who...

now tom, he needs no explanation.  the first time i met tom was my first night in rez before moving day and floorfellow jared had us in his room introducing ourselves and tom was from ct, and i was like "cool, someone else from connecticut on the floor, what are the odds?"  tom was the master of trying to get girls and amazingly his seemingly repulsive ways always worked.  his room was a complete disaster and even the new "image makeover" wasnt exactly the big bonus either.  and of course, the time he shaved his sideburns completely to above his ear...quite a character, still he had some interesting views in all our philosophical conversations.  definitely, i'm gonna try and get together with him sometimes this summer cause hes only about 50 min away.  i'm always down there for pepes pizza anyway so we're gonna have to go sometime...

ah, jonny van de leuuuuuv.  day one, we get to molson hall and we've got our 15 passenger van parked where the asshole took my space this weekend.  so jon and his dad and his brother drive up in this station wagon and they're moving jon in.  i had no idea he was even on my floor for about 2 weeks.  jons probably one of the people on the floor that i feel closest to, probably because i was in his room so much playing quake on his computer or ps2.  good guy with a good girlfriend, he'll be okay. probably one of the biggest dave matthews fans i know and the one who turned me onto them just a little bit more than i used to be.  hes been good for listening to my women problems and offerin up advice and if he decides to come up to hartford for the dmb concert, he's got a place to stay here.

next to jon in the corner is lilly.  lilly was cute.  i dunno why but she was the cute type, just something about her.  never got too close to her (although i hear some people did...).  she listened to my girl problems also and was probably the first on the floor to know about sarah and then christine (both leaked at vol de nuit), but nothing really got accomplished other than she would say how its so cute...as if i couldnt get a girl.  oh wait, i didnt this year :P

and lastly on the floor, is jordana.  the first two weeks or so that i knew her, she was smoking weed all the time and whining "where's tom?" but she cut down a bit and was a little more normal.  still didnt know her too well but when she wasnt smoking, i could relate to her a little better.  jordana's jewish also and i think she was taking a hebrew course, so it was cool to have another jew on the floor.  much more than that, i dunno what to say about her.

like i said, east side was hard cause i didnt go over there as much as my side (obviously) and so i didnt get to know as many people as well.  i guess before some of the miscellany people, theres one more left: jared kelly, molson five floorfellow...

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